A works cited list, because nine books need lots of calcium.
It's not required reading. It's just what's in the walls.
On Revolution & Its Aftermath
Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. Viking Press, 1963.
Brinton, Crane. The Anatomy of Revolution. Rev. ed., Vintage Books, 1965.
Dix, Robert H. "The Varieties of Revolution." Comparative Politics, vol. 15, no. 3, 1983, pp. 281–294. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/421683.
Dix, Robert H. "Why Revolutions Succeed and Fail." Polity, vol. 16, no. 3, 1984, pp. 423–446. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3234558.
Goldstone, Jack A. "The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions." Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 8, 1982, pp. 187–207. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.08.080182.001155.
Hopper, Rex D. "The Revolutionary Process: A Frame of Reference for the Study of Revolutionary Movements." Social Forces, vol. 28, no. 3, 1950, pp. 270–279. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2572010.
Kramnick, Isaac. "Reflections on Revolution: Definition and Explanation in Recent Scholarship." History and Theory, vol. 11, no. 1, 1972, pp. 26–63. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2504623.
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge UP, 1979.
Stone, Lawrence. "Theories of Revolution." World Politics, vol. 18, no. 2, 1966, pp. 159–176. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2009694.
Yoder, D. "Current Definitions of Revolution." American Journal of Sociology, vol. 32, no. 3, 1926, pp. 433–441. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2765544.
On Colonialism & Its Psychology
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, 1983.
Bentahar, Ziad. "Frantz Fanon: Travelling Psychoanalysis and Colonial Algeria." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 42, no. 3, Sept. 2009, pp. 1–12.
Fanon, Frantz. A Dying Colonialism. Maspero, 1959. Translated by Haakon Chevalier, Grove Press, 1965.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. 1952. Translated by Charles L. Markmann, Grove Press, 1967.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Maspero, 1961. Translated by Constance Farrington, Grove Press, 1963.
Fanon, Frantz. Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays. Edited by François Maspero, translated by Haakon Chevalier, Grove Press, 1967.
Fanon-Mendès-France, Mireille, and Donato Fhunsu. "The Contribution of Frantz Fanon to the Process of the Liberation of the People." The Black Scholar, vol. 42, no. 3–4, 2012, pp. 8–12.
Forsythe, Dennis. "Frantz Fanon—The Marx of the Third World." Phylon, vol. 34, no. 2, 1973, pp. 160–170.
Gordimer, Nadine. Burger's Daughter. Jonathan Cape, 1979.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Edited by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith, International Publishers, 1971.
Mbembe, Achille. "Necropolitics." Public Culture, vol. 15, no. 1, 2003.
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. 1957. Translated by Howard Greenfeld, Beacon Press, 1965.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. James Currey, 1986.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
On Class, the Gutter, & the Underworld
Brooks, Clem. "Class Politics and Political Change in the United States." Sociological Forum, vol. 12, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1–35. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2580718.
Clark, Terry Nichols. "The Breakdown of Class Politics." Social Science Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 2, 2003, pp. 299–315. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27700340.
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist. Belknap Press, 2011.
Evans, Geoffrey, and James Tilley. "How Parties Shape Class Politics: Explaining the Decline of the Class Basis of Party Support." British Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 1, 2012, pp. 137–161. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123411000202.
Evans, Geoffrey, and James Tilley. "The Depoliticization of Inequality and Redistribution: Explaining the Decline of Class Voting." The Journal of Politics, vol. 74, no. 4, 2012, pp. 963–976. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381612000618.
Fitts, Robert K. "The Rhetoric of Reform: The Five Points Missions and the Cult of Domesticity." Historical Archaeology, vol. 35, 2001, pp. 115–132. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03374397.
Jarness, Vegard, Magne Paalgard Flemmen, and Lennart Rosenlund. "From Class Politics to Classed Politics." Sociology, vol. 53, no. 5, 2019, pp. 879–899. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519838740.
Lichtenstein, Nelson. "Class Politics and the State during World War Two." International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 58, 2000, pp. 261–274. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27672683.
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. 1851.
Milne, Claudia. "On the Grounds of the Fresh Water Pond: The Free-Black Community at Five Points, 1810–1834." International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 6, no. 1, 2002, pp. 127–142. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016084621564.
Oestreicher, Richard. "How Should Historians Think about 'The Gangs of New York'?" History Workshop Journal, no. 56, 2003, pp. 210–215. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4289867.
Petras, James. "Class Politics, State Power and Legitimacy." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 24, no. 34, 1989, pp. 1955–1958. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4395265.
Reckner, Paul. "Remembering Gotham: Urban Legends, Public History, and Representations of Poverty, Crime, and Race in New York City." International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 6, no. 2, 2002, pp. 95–112. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016032604726.
Reynolds, George W. M. The Mysteries of London. 1844–1848.
Samuel, Raphael, editor. East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Walkowitz, Daniel J. "'The Gangs of New York': The Mean Streets in History." History Workshop Journal, no. 56, 2003, pp. 204–209. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/56.1.204.
Wiley, Norbert. "America's Unique Class Politics." American Sociological Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 1967, pp. 529–541. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2091022.
Wilentz, Sean. "On Class and Politics in Jacksonian America." Reviews in American History, vol. 10, no. 4, 1982, pp. 45–63. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2701818.
Yamin, Rebecca. "Lurid Tales and Homely Stories of New York's Notorious Five Points." Historical Archaeology, vol. 32, no. 1, 1998, pp. 74–85. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25616594.
On the Built Environment & the Vertical City
Girard, Greg, and Ian Lambot. City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City. Watermark, 1993.
Girard, Greg, and Ian Lambot. City of Darkness Revisited. Watermark, 2014.
Harvey, David. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. Verso, 2012.
Ho, Suenn. An Architectural Study on the Kowloon Walled City: Preliminary Findings. Columbia University, 1992.
Johnson, Steven Berlin. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic. Riverhead Books, 2006.
Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1991.
Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale UP, 1998.
Soja, Edward W. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Blackwell, 1996.
Soja, Edward W. "The Socio-Spatial Dialectic." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 70, no. 2, 1980, pp. 207–225. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2562950.
Wong, Kwan-yiu, et al. A Geographic Study of the Kowloon Walled City. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Geography, 1992.
On Extraction, Addiction, & the Drug Economy
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan, Pantheon Books, 1977.
Trocki, Carl A. Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750–1950. Routledge, 1999.
On the Sacred, the Chaotic, & the Occult
Carroll, Peter J. Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic. 1987. Weiser Books, revised and expanded ed., 2022.
Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Translated by Willard R. Trask, Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
Evans, Dave. The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, the Left-Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality. Hidden Publishing, 2007.
Hine, Phil. Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic. New Falcon Publications, 1995.
On the Body, Pain, & Violence
hooks, bell. All About Love: New Visions. William Morrow, 2000.
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford UP, 1985.
On Dystopia, Hope, & Genre Theory
Aurora, S. "From Structure to Machine: Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of Linguistics." Deleuze Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, 2017, pp. 405–428. https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2017.0274.
Baccolini, Raffaella. "The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction." PMLA, vol. 119, no. 3, 2004, pp. 518–521. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486067.
Gonnermann, Annika. "The Concept of Post-Pessimism in 21st-Century Dystopian Fiction." The Comparatist, vol. 43, 2019, pp. 26–40. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0002.
Herman, Peter C. "More, Huxley, Eggers, and the Utopian/Dystopian Tradition." Renaissance and Reformation, vol. 41, no. 3, 2018, pp. 165–193.
Michael-Matsas, Savvas. "A Utopia of Immanence: Revolution in Deleuze and Guattari." Deleuze Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, 2016, pp. 289–300. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/45331737.
Mihăilescu, C. A. "Mind the Gap: Dystopia as Fiction." Style, vol. 25, no. 2, 1991, pp. 211–222.
Moylan, Tom. "The Necessity of Hope in Dystopian Times: A Critical Reflection." Utopian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2020, pp. 164–193. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.31.1.0164.
Schönher, Mathias. "The Triple Transformation: The Emergence of Philosophy in Deleuze and Guattari." Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 4, 2019, pp. 610–627. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.33.4.0610.
Stivale, Charles J. "Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Schizoanalysis & Literary Discourse." SubStance, vol. 9, no. 4, 1980, pp. 46–57. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3684040.
Period Detail & Material Culture
Altick, Richard D. Victorian Studies in Scarlet. Norton, 1970.
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. 1861.
Gloag, John. Victorian Comfort: A Social History of Design from 1830–1900. Allen & Unwin, 1961.
Literary & Dramatic Sources
Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. 1844–1846.
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic. Spartacus. Victor Gollancz, 1933.
Shakespeare, William. Henry V.
Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus.
Waters, Sarah. Tipping the Velvet. Virago Press, 1998.
Visual Media
Black Lagoon. Directed by Sunao Katabuchi, Madhouse, 2006.
Black Sails. Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, Starz, 2014–17.
Children of Men. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Universal Pictures, 2006.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, Trigger, 2022.
Deadwood. Created by David Milch, HBO, 2004–06.
Domino. Directed by Tony Scott, New Line Cinema, 2005.
Empire. Created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, Fox, 2015–20.
Gangs of New York. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Miramax, 2002.
House of Cards. Created by Beau Willimon, Netflix, 2013–18.
In the Mood for Love. Directed by Wong Kar-wai, Block 2 Pictures, 2000.
Jormungand. Directed by Keitaro Motonaga, White Fox, 2012.
Mad Max: Fury Road. Directed by George Miller, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2015.
Metropolis. Directed by Fritz Lang, Universum Film (UFA), 1927.
Neon Genesis Evangelion. Directed by Hideaki Anno, Gainax, 1995–96.
Peaky Blinders. Created by Steven Knight, BBC, 2013–22.
Penny Dreadful. Created by John Logan, Showtime, 2014–16.
Pirates of the Caribbean. Directed by Gore Verbinski, Walt Disney Pictures, 2003–07.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, Shaft, 2011.
Rome. Created by Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald, HBO, 2005–07.
Shadow and Bone. Created by Eric Heisserer, Netflix, 2021–23.
Silo. Created by Graham Yost, Apple TV+, 2023–26.
Snowpiercer. Directed by Bong Joon-ho, CJ Entertainment, 2013.
Sons of Liberty. Directed by Kari Skogland, History Channel, 2015.
The Crow. Directed by Alex Proyas, Miramax Films, 1994.
The Great. Created by Tony McNamara, Hulu, 2020–23.
The Sopranos. Created by David Chase, HBO, 1999–2007.
The Wire. Created by David Simon, HBO, 2002–08.
V for Vendetta. Directed by James McTeigue, Warner Bros., 2005.
The people who insist Jax makes more sense as transmasc than transfem because she rejects the feminine (blushes and protests when force-femmed) remind me of the people who don't understand the difference between diagetic and non-diagetic BDSM. There are layers of insincerity that must be considered. "The lady doth protest too much methinks."
The show honestly seems to portray forced feminization as a positive experience for Jax, allowing her to flirt with feminine gender expression in her head while outwardly having an excuse to deny it. The parallel is to trans women in the real world sometimes liking the genre for being able to project their own desire to flirt with gender-bending with the excuse of force onto forcefem protagonists. This might only work in the show because Jax is cartoony and blends grimdark with silliness, allowing a clean skip over the part where everyone but Pomni essentially sexually assaults her by forcing her in the maid outfit. We treat that part as non-serious but allow the seriousness of Jax imagining herself in the maid outfit voluntarily later.
I added more artwork and tchotchkes, because the thing about Phoebe is that she never half asses anything. Whether it's decorating her apartment or blowing up her own life, she's employing her entire ass.
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A Series of Short Essays on The Haunted House Film
Over the past few months, in preperation for my next book, (provisionally titled Under the Floorboards) I've been getting back in to writing more direct film criticism. I've set myself a challenge of trying to watch haunted house film, write some thoughts and responses and to keep this habit going for as long as I can. It's essentially an attempt to build a research notebook in public and to keep my blog thehaunt alive (hey remember blogs, whatever happened there, we should bring those back)
The selection criteria, is at best, a little idiosyncratic, but I'm hoping this can build out into a useful guide to the haunted house on film if I can keep going long enough. At present, I've jumped around a little, and I'm always looking for films which are a little off the beaten path to fill in gaps in my own knowledge or just to find something new, strange, and interesting.
You can find all the parts thus far linked below - but I'm looking for suggestions or requests. If there's a haunted house movie (and take that as broadly as you like) you enjoy, do let me know and I'll add it to my slowly ever-expanding doc of movies i'm determined to work my way through.
Researching Egyptian mythology for my wip is like...where do I go? Where is The Texts I must read, the translators and the historians and the people talking about this stuff? Where is everything?! SHOW ME YOUR SECRETS!
